"Today is a good day. We look around like blind people who have recovered their
sight, and we look at each other. We have never seen each other in sunlight:
someone smiles."
Why was it a good day? There were two answers for that. First, literally, it was a sunny day and, therefore, a good day. The other reason is that the prisoners got more soup than usual. I think that the former reason makes more sense in the context of this novel, even though it does sound ridiculous to say, "it was a good day because it was sunny."
The sun, in this chapter, has a symbolic meaning of hope and the connection between the past and the present. The quote above shows that the blind prisoners "recovered their sight, which indicates that they haven't seen sunlight for a long time. It is the same sunlight that they used to have while they were "civilians," and it is probably the only common thing between the concentration camps and their home.
This passage reminded me that we sometimes take our daily life granted and that we shouldn't be.
댓글 없음:
댓글 쓰기